Mehitable Shaw

Mehitable Pratt Shaw

• BIRTH 1667 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH 19 Oct 1712 (aged 44–45) Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 37017282 Photos by Sandra Lennox

Biography

Mehitable Pratt was born in 1667, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, probably the daughter of Benajah Pratt and Persis (Dunham) Pratt.[1] On December 29, 1687, Mehitable married Lieutenant Jonathan Shaw.[2]

Gravesite Details
Mary with same dates listed at Lakenham, Carver

Spouse
Jonathan Shaw 1663–1730 (m. 1687)

Children with Mehitable*, Mary** all born in Plymouth, MA

• Jonathan Shaw 1689–1760
• Phebe Shaw Shurtleff 1690–1730 m. Thomas Shurtleff
• Persis Shaw Lucas 1692–1726 m. Joseph Lucas
• Mehitable Shaw Weston 1694–1763 m, Zachariah Weston
• James Shaw 1696/7–1745
• Hannah Shaw Harlow 1699–1747 m. James Harlow
• Jonathan
• Elizabeth Shaw Lucas 1701–1727 m. Samuel Lucas
• Priscilla Shaw Bosworth 1702- m. Bosworth
• Abigail Shaw Barton 1705 – unknown (may have married a Lucas also)
• Samuel Shaw 1706–1768

References

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pratt-373

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37017282/mehitable-shaw

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pratt-373
• ↑ Pratt, John Nesbitt. A Pratt book; The American Ancestors and Descendants of Simon Newcomb (7) Pratt and his wife Deborah Isabel (3) Nelson and Ancestral Records. Self-Published, 1938. Page 29. https://archive.org/details/prattbookamerica00patt/page/n71/mode/2u...
• ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GCJF : 18 February 2020), Jonathan Jr. Shaw and Mehitaboll Pratt, 29 Dec 1687; citing Marriage, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934186.
• ↑ Find A Grave for her husband lists Mehitable's marriage and death. There is no Find A Grave record for Mehitable herself. Find A Grave, database and images, accessed 16 November 2017), memorial page for Lieut Jonathan Shaw, II (1663–18 Jan 1730), Find A Grave Memorial no. 36881171, citing Lakenham Cemetery, Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Anne Shurtleff Stevens (contributor 46947920). Find A Grave: Memorial #36881171 There is no record for Mehitable herself.
• Doty, Ethan. The Doty-Doten Family in America (E.A. Doty, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1897) Page: 633
• Shaw, Jonathan A., John Shaw of Plymouth Colony, Purchaser and Canal Builder, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1997) Vol. 151, Page 419-20.